Rachel Kolisi is taking Falling Forward beyond Southern Africa, with the deeply personal project heading to London for a one-night screening and conversation in November.
The London event will take place on Thursday, 19 November at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, extending a project that has grown from a documentary and memoir into a series of live spaces built around resilience, identity and the complicated work of starting again.
In a recent Instagram post, Kolisi gave followers a glimpse of the tone she wants to bring into the room: honest conversations about the pressure women often feel to stay strong, keep carrying responsibility and make difficult seasons look manageable.
What Rachel Kolisi is bringing to London
The London edition is billed as a documentary screening followed by a live Q&A, giving the audience an opportunity to engage with Kolisi after seeing the film.
South African creative Nkateko ‘Takkies’ Dinwiddy is set to host the evening. Singer Anica Kiana is also listed among the live performers, adding a musical element to a programme centred on conversation and connection.
The event listing places the start at 18:45, with the show beginning at 19:00. Tickets are being sold through Eventbrite, with general admission listed at GBP40 at the time of publication.
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Falling Forward is bigger than one life change
Although Kolisi’s divorce from Springbok captain Siya Kolisi has inevitably formed part of public interest around her recent chapter, Falling Forward has consistently been framed as a wider story.
Her official project describes the documentary as an exploration of identity, loss, healing, motherhood, courage and rediscovery. The focus is on what happens when familiar versions of a life fall away, and how a person begins to build something new without pretending the process is neat or easy.
That same idea runs through the Falling Forward memoir, published earlier this year, and through the live roadshow. Rather than offering a polished formula for resilience, the project leans into the uncomfortable middle ground where grief, faith, uncertainty and growth can exist at the same time.
From South African roadshow to international stop
Falling Forward first travelled through South African cities earlier in 2026 before expanding into a longer run that included additional local stops and Windhoek.
The London date marks an international chapter for the project and opens the conversation to South Africans living abroad as well as a wider audience interested in the themes at its centre.
For Kolisi, the appeal appears to be less about delivering a motivational speech from a stage and more about creating a room where women can acknowledge that strength does not always look like coping perfectly.
That makes London a natural next step for a project built around connection: one documentary, one conversation and, if the roadshow’s earlier stops are anything to go by, plenty of room for people to recognise parts of their own lives in someone else’s story.
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